Muslim personal law

The article examines the development of the legalism of Personal Law and provisions of community rights for disparate communities in modern India, and the role of religion and communal politics in their perpetuation. The case study undertaken here is specifically the Muslim community’s Constitutionally-sanctioned Personal law (MPL). MPL has not been without criticisms both from outside and within the community, particularly in respect of gendered disadvantages that arise within the provisions safeguarding the practices, which cover marriage, divorce, alimony, inheritance, custody, succession, and so forth.

Marriage as women's old age insurance : evidence from migration and land inheritance practices in rural Tanzania

In a traditional system of exogamous and patrilocal marriage prevalent in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, when she marries, a rural woman typically leaves her kin to reside with her husband living outside her natal village. Since a village that allows a widow to inherit her late husband's land can provide her with old age security, single females living outside the village are more likely to marry into the village. Using a natural experimental setting, provided by the longitudinal household panel data drawn from rural Tanzania for the period from 1991 to 2004, during which several villages that initially banned a widow's land inheritance removed this discrimination, this study provides evidence in support of this view, whereby altering a customary land inheritance rules in a village in favor of widows increased the probability of males marrying in that village. This finding suggests that providing rural women with old age protection (e.g., insurance, livelihood protection) has remarkable spatial and temporal welfare effects by influencing their decision to marry.

Narratives and counter-narratives on "marriage of convenience" : conjugality and (il)legality in portuguese migration policies and in couples’ experiences

Tese de doutoramento, Sociologia (Sociologia da Família, Juventude e das Relações do Género), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 2016

General Principles of EU Law: The Ghost in the Platonic Heaven in Need of Conceptual Clarification. Pittsburgh Papers on the European Union Vol. 2, 2013

General principles are en vogue in EU law – and in need of conceptual clarification. A closer look at several concepts of principle in legal philosophy and legal theory sheds light upon the concept of general principles in EU law. A distinction between an aprioristic model of principle and a model of principle informed by legal positivism may contribute to clarifying the genesis of a (general) principle in EU law, as well as its nature and functions. This paper demonstrates that an evolution has taken place from a reliance on seemingly natural law inspired reflections of general principles via the desperate search to ground general principles in various kinds of sources based on a more or less sound methodology towards an increasing reliance on strictly positivistic approaches. Against this backdrop, general principles are likely to lose significance where there are other norms while retaining an important yet uncontrollable role where the traditional canon of sources is silent.

Cases of divorce for several causes : viz. I. Memoirs of the life of Robert Feilding esq; containing an account of his amours ... and a true copy of his last will and testament. II. The case of Barbara late Dutchess of Cleaveland, with the whole proceedings between Her Grace, and Major-General Feilding in Doctors-Commons ... III. The case of John Dormer, esq. IV. The case of Sir George Downing, bart. and Mrs. Mary Forester. V. Depositions taken in the Lady Howard's case : also the judgment of the most eminent divines, &c. concerning the dissolution of marriage.

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The laws of the commonwealth of Massachusetts relating to marriage and divorce, embraced in the Public statutes, (enacted Nov. 19, 1881; to take effect Feb. 1, 1882;) : with a full digest of the decisions of the Supreme judicial court in divorce causes under laws heretofore in force and codified in these statutes, supplemented by copious extracts from the opinions of the court in important cases, together with notes, comments, and forms of pleading.

Includes index.

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes; 8 17/64 in.x 6 17/64 in.; oil on wood

Realities and ideals; social, political, literary and artistic.

Partly republished from various sources.

Marriage laws and statutory experiments in eugenics in the United States,

Reprinted from "The Eugenics review," April, 1910.

Considerations of marriages prohibited by the law of God /

Mode of access: Internet.

Manual of the laws of Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia relative to religious corporations, charitable uses, marriage, wills, religious meetings, etc.,

Mode of access: Internet.

Marriage records, 1665-1800;

The marriage records of the Hackensack and Schraalenburgh churches are reprinted from v. 1 of the Collections of the Holland society of New York.

Manual of the laws of Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia relative to religious societies, charitable uses, marriage, wills, religious meetings, etc.

Mode of access: Internet.

Marriage, as it was, as it is, and as it should be: a plea for reform.

"Catalogue of works published by the Freethought Publishing Company, dated June 1881": 24 p. at end.

Report from the Select Committee on Native Custom and Marriage Laws, together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and appendix.

Ordered printed May 15, 1913.